Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International

Senior Editors

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, African American and Diaspora Studies and French, Vanderbilt University

Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers, AADS and History, Vanderbilt University

Guest Editors

Annette Joseph-Gabriel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Managing Editors

Annette Joseph-Gabriel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Vanderbilt University Editorial Board

Houston A. Baker, Associate Editor, English & AADS

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Associate Editor, Divinity School

Jane Landers, Associate Editor, History

Ifeoma Nwankwo, Associate Editor, English

Kelly Oliver, Associate Editor, Philosophy

Alice Randall, Associate Editor and Fiction and Poetry Book Review Editor, AADS

Hortense J. Spillers, Associate Editor, English

Gilman W. Whiting, Associate Editor, AADS

International Advisory Board

Eudine Barriteau, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Barbados

Judy Byfield, History, Cornell University

Glenda Carpio, English and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Bettye Collier-Thomas, History, Temple University

Afua Cooper, James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University

Anastasia Curwood, History, University of Kentucky

Musa Dube, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Botswana

Thadious Davis, Professor Emerita, English, University of Pennsylvania

Frieda Ekotta, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

Lisa Farrington, Art and Music, John Jay College, City University of New York

Karen E. Fields, Independent Scholar

Thavolia Glymph, African and African American Studies, Duke University

Shelley Haley, Africana Studies and Classics, Hamilton College

Sirène Harb, American University of Beirut

Robin D. G. Kelley, History, University of California, Los Angeles

Erik McDuffie, African American Studies and History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Patricia Mohammed, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies

Nell Painter, Professor Emerita, History, Princeton University

Lara Putnam, History, University of Pittsburgh

Rhoda Reddock, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

Verene Shepherd, Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona

Werner Sollors, English, Harvard University

Marina de Mello e Souza, Departamento de História, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Ula Taylor, African American Studies, University of California, Berkley

Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University

Michael West, Sociology, Binghamton University, State Universiy of New York

Valérie K. Orlando, French and Francophone Literatures, University of Maryland, College Park